[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] dolphy gst-player: gst-player/ gst-player/libs/gst/player/

[Bastien Nocera]

Heya Ronald,

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 12:17, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Hey Bastien,
> 
> On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:02, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to have the v4l:// url choose which of v4lsrc and
> > v4l2src to use?
> 
> We;ve actually discussed that a year ago or so. Then, we concluded one
> plugin should have one function. In order to autodetect, someone (me?)
> would have to write a vidsrc plugin that autodetects which video source
> to use (v4l2src, v4lsrc, v4lmjpegsrc, bktrsrc (*), ...).

In that particular case, I actually talking about putting the
intelligence in libgstplay, not in another plugin.

> Same would (probably) go for audsrc (osssrc, alsasrc, ...) and audsink
> (alsasink, osssink, esdsink, massink, jacksink, ...).

That would make more sense though for applications not using libgstplay.

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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